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Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: I want my strong objection to be noted.

Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: Ms Teresa Treacy is in Mountjoy Jail as we speak. She was thrown in there by order of a judge because she is not prepared to allow the ESB to destroy a swathe of trees through her forest at Clonmore, County Offaly in order to erect massive pylons and power lines. Conifers have already been cut. I have personally seen the destruction that has been done. The next tranche for the chop is a...

Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Minister of State insults us, the Dáil and the people by coming to the House with that rambling and irrelevant answer. It is incredible. It was written by the Civil Service and I doubt she read it before she came to the House because, otherwise, she would not take responsibility for it. This is supposed to be the Topical Issues Debate; it is supposed to involve relevant engagement...

Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: The ESB could go immediately to the High Court-----

Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----and to Teresa Treacy to discuss with her the agreement-----

Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----that the cables can be placed underground and then, provided there was agreement, the issue of contempt would finish - full stop. That is what should be done.

Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: That is the engagement we seek. The five United Left Alliance Deputies are concerned about this issue. We stand in solidarity. The Minister should be here.

Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: An underground cable is the solution.

Written Answers — Mortgage Arrears: Mortgage Arrears (5 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Finance the work he has undertaken to coordinate Government policy on the mortgage crisis facing many householders and families. [24429/11]

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown is a vital acute facility for 333,000 people from Meath to west Dublin and Kildare to north-west Dublin. Recently the HSE demanded a costing on what it would save the hospital to go from a 24-hour accident and emergency service to a 12-hour service. The Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, stated at the hospital on Monday there was no such plan. We accept...

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: I told the Tánaiste what is in it.

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: I said nothing about closing down the hospital. The Tánaiste waffled around the issue. What happened to the outrage he expressed when he sat on this side of the Chamber-----

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----regarding the devastating effects of health cutbacks, the suffering of individuals on waiting lists and the fact that working class people and those on middle and lower incomes cannot afford private health insurance? What happened to the Tánaiste's concern for them? The fact is that the budget is set in an arbitrary manner. A cut of €20 million in the hospital's funding will be...

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: I remind the Tánaiste that the doctors in Blanchardstown, who take their responsibilities very seriously, have delivered in terms of the work they do. They have written to local public representatives, including the Ministers for Social Protection and Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputies Burton and Varadkar - who are betraying the hospital - and stated that they cannot guarantee that it...

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: So the Government has decided to introduce cuts in the area of health so that we might pay the bondholders and pay interest to the jackals in Europe.

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: Is that what the Tánaiste said when he was on this side of the House?

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: The extensive leaks from the report of the Keane group on distressed mortgages will be greeted with bitter disappointment by the 95,000 homeowners in mortgage difficulties, of whom 40,000 or more are in arrears of more than six months. While there may be a few speculators among these, the vast majority are victims of the greed of developers and Irish bankers, facilitated by European bankers...

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: People are being forced out of their homes. There were almost 1,000 repossessions in one form or another in the past two years. A United Left Alliance colleague of mine is dealing with a family who were ordered to be on the streets at 12 p.m. tomorrow, a husband, wife and three children, on the orders of a subprime mortgage lender. That is the reality of the distress and suffering that...

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: What is the Taoiseach's thinking on the matter?

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: I just gave the Taoiseach some.